Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.


We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

February 9, 1999

Open Your Heart

Messenger: We hide the truth, many times, from ourselves. We cover up the truth from the past.

Jesus speaks: Look, My troubled souls, into your past. Children (I speak of you as children, 80, 90, years old, you are children of the Father and the Mother), you hide the truth about yourselves from yourselves. A person with a gloomy, pessimistic attitude has a gloomy pessimistic attitude 40 years later. Do you change or remain the same, using the same dysfunctional ways of relating because you have gotten used to those you live with?

You must interact with others. People who keep themselves closed off from others stifle their growth.

Look into your past, see the dysfunctional ways in which you interacted with others. Do you live to serve others and look for their approval? Is that what makes you feel worthwhile? There is a perfect way and an imperfect way.

This is the most perfect way:
At every moment you must live to please the Father. When you serve others, it is because it is the Father's will. You truly feel in your heart you are loving and serving Jesus.

Many buzz around and work and work and they do it for approval of others. Some are in a habit of sitting still and let others wait on them. They live their whole lives like this.

One serves, one sits, the question is, is it God's will you serve and His will your brother sits? Is it a habit you have learned from a dysfunctional family? The man sits, the woman runs. Is it God's will? Then where does it stop, do the children expect to be served likewise? Should all join in loving harmony and help one another if all are capable? Is the man higher than the woman? After a hard day, if he worked to provide the funds for the family, is it not right for the wife to serve him when he is tired?

Has the woman's role changed so much that now she assumes equal responsibility in securing family funds?

Is it God's will we work on Sunday? Do some parents teach their children by their example that the family funds are more important than a family meal? Are some of you forced to skip the family meal because spouses have their own life and schedule and have enforced their unloving, unrelating ways on the family? Because they cease to share in the proper communication, have they enforced their ways, disregarding other persons' desires?

Does it not come down to the center within persons, formed and molded through childhood and relationships in which many were forced to practice the dysfunctional behavior of others and live that way?

My child, in the Reign of the Sacred Heart there will be one recognized Master, the Almighty God. All will act to serve Him. There will not be dysfunctional relationships in which one rules and the other must do what he says, regardless of sick behavior involved.

There will be authority, but authority will come from men living under God's feet, acting according to the Father's will. All will operate in loving harmony in one mind and one will.

Messenger: We are most comfortable in a relationship that is similar to other relationships we have had.


Psalm 33:11

but Yahweh's own plan stands firm for ever,
his heart's counsel from age to age.


Psalm 33:19

to rescue them from death
and keep them alive in famine.


Messenger: Generations may have acted a certain way.

We come out of a mold when we leave our families. We may have a mind of our own, nonetheless we graduate from our families' schools. Our family or where we grew up were our teachers. How was the school?

In a community, all these schools of learning are brought together. In a particular community, Mary Smith was taught from the Smith family, Carol Jones from the Jones Family, Suzie Que from the Que family, Dan King from the King family and Mrs. King had a family of different origin. If all of these people joined in one community, they all bring their own schools of learning.

When one begins to interact intimately with another, the imperfections surface. There must be the willingness on the part of every person to be willing to die to their imperfections and change. Some patterns of behavior are so strong and are damaging to others in a community. It takes God's grace and a desire for great holiness to be willing to look into oneself and openly share intimately what one thinks and feels.

A person who feels he can run to Jesus and spend lots of time with Him and remains the same in his ways because he does not interact with others, may significantly stifle his chance of growth. Jesus has brought us together in great oneness in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. We have a deep personal relationship with Him, but we realize that interaction on an intimate level with others helps us to grow in more perfect ways of loving. Jesus wants us to be intimate in our love relationship with Him and intimate with one another, sharing heartfelt love and feelings. We are not islands, isolated pieces of humanity.

A man may be focused on his health. There is always some major problem that needs to be looked after. He is dissatisfied with his job, always looking to escape and find greener pastures. Some twenty years later, we may run into the same man with the same story. (This is not to discredit real health problems, this is an example of how patterned behavior fills our lives.) If the man has a wife similar to himself and works with other such people, he can continue his depressive behavior patterns and not even notice that his morbid concern for his health and his dissatisfaction are habits that he has acquired, always looking for things that are wrong and focusing on what he doesn't have rather than living very fully in the moment.

Unless we are willing to look at ourselves, we may go through our lives experiencing the same problems with everyone we get close to and blaming it on everyone and everything around us.

It takes grace to change. Christ gave us the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We ask Him to help us to die to the ways that are not like Him. Generation after generation passes down ways of relating, ways of loving, in the family.

In the Reign of the Sacred Heart all will live in service of the King, all will be dwelling in His pure and holy Heart and the Heart of Mary. Purity is found in Their Hearts. We must let down our walls, look inside, and recognize we are all imperfect and pray to God for grace.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Mary speaks: My children, I give you my Immaculate Heart.

In my Immaculate Heart you will be made pure. I will take you to the depth of the Heart of my Son.

Messenger: "I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love."

One mind, one heart, one God, our All.

One will, the will of the Father. Willfulness will be stamped out.

The old Eve, the New Eve.

Eve did her own will.

Mary did His will.

Mary Immaculate, help us to be pure and to unite in oneness according to the Father's will.

Mary Immaculate, lead us to the depth of union with your Son.

Mary Immaculate, take us into His Heart that we will know the truth, for He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Some of us think that all within us is the truth and is perfect, because we were taught to act in a certain way. This does not make it right.

We will know the truth more as we dwell in Their Hearts and know more how to love like Him.


Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do you feel writing from the question about our feelings every day has helped us to become closer in our relationship?

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